Thomas W. Thompson

Thomas Weston Thompson (15 March 1766-1 October 1821) was a member of the US House of Representatives from New Hampshire's at-large district from 4 March 1805 to 3 March 1807 (succeeding Samuel Hunt and preceding Daniel Meserve Durell) and a US Senator from 24 June 1814 to 3 March 1817 (succeeding Nicholas Gilman and preceding David L. Morril). He was a Federalist Party member.

Biography
Thomas W. Thompson was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1766, and he served as an aide to General Benjamin Lincoln during Shays' Rebellion. He became a lawyer in New Hampshire in 1791 and practiced law in Salisbury from 1791 to 1810, mentoring Daniel Webster. He also served as Postmaster of Salisbury from 1798 to 1803 and as a trustee of Dartmouth College from 1801 to 1821, and he was elected to serve in the US House of Representatives from 1805 to 1807 and in the US Senate from 1814 to 1817, filling the vacancy caused by Nicholas Gilman's death. He died in 1821.